Teapot by Daniel Van Voorhis
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

Teapot

Daniel Van Voorhis · c. 1793

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. With Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, by 1950; with White Elephant Shop, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1950; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Milwaukee Art Institute, Traditions of American Silver, Feb. 13–Mar. 19, 1952, cat. 37.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 199 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections and Notes on the Society's Aims and History (Chicago, 1951) no. 58a.
  • Meyric Rogers, "American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago" Magazine Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958) p. 55.
  • Katherine McClinton, Collecting American 19th Century Silver (Scribners, 1968) p. 17.
  • Milo Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute 1978) p. 21 (ill.).
  • Arthur Pulos, American Design Ethic, A History of Industrial Design to 1940 (MIT Press, 1983) p. 43 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 112–113, no. 41.
  • Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 38 (ill.).
  • Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), <a href="https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6">https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6</a>, cat. 38 (ill.).

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